Henry's New Love

My friends and I went out for a drink on the chilly October night. My friends Tiffany and Sarah walked beside me. We were the queens of Boston and we walked the street as though we owned the place. I wasn't particularly a drinker. My friends were more the type that would hit on any living man with a pulse. I merely like to sit back and wait for someone to ask me my name. I was a very shy sort but I survived.

We went to the Bean Town pub to get warm. It was cramped in the small pub. There was barely a place to sit. There was a side bar that had three empty chairs. We took our seats and Sara ordered us our drinks. They went to work looking for any unchained man.

"Oh hello hottie just walked through the door coming this way." Sarah jumped off her stool and went to meet the newcomer. I rolled my eyes and sipped my Sam Logger.

I didn't realize that I was alone until I went to talk to Tiffany and found her seat taken by a man with dark brown eyes. His hair almost as dark as his eyes. He looked absolutely handsome and the scariest thing was he was looking right at me.


My mouth was tongue tied looking at the beauty in front of me. She looked just like my late wife. My mind went blank and I couldn't make a comprehensive response. I couldn't believe that this girl this spry young thing could be the next vampire hunter! I shook my head to clear my thoughts. "Uh can I buy you a drink?" I asked with nothing else to say to her. She giggled holding up her half full glass of beer. I searched my mind trying to introduce myself and tell her of her life's mission. I couldn't find any words to say none at all. Two girls came to her and pulled her off the bar stool as a song played over the intercom.

"I'm fine thank you I don't need to dance." She let go of one of the girl's hands and let them come back to her like flies.

"Come on Jenny there's more to life than looking out windows wishing that something will happen you just have to live it." The girl smiled and my stone-dead heart beat up faster. The council had told me that she was related to my old friend Abraham Lincoln but I never thought that she would also be related to my late wife as well.

Jenny Lincoln stayed seated on the barstool next to me fervently telling her friends that she didn't want to dance.

"Come on Jenny it's your twenty-first birthday you're supposed to get drunk and laid all on the same night." Jenny just shook her head. I didn't see what the harm in a drink was. The girl had barely touched her glass since I had sat down. In the five minutes since I had sat at the barstool I learned more of my target than the council would let on.

The council had warned me that this girl would walk out of the bar at precisely nine o'clock letting her friends find their own way back home. She would then get lost and get attacked by a vampire. It was my mission to protect her and teach her all about hunting vampires. The fact that she looked exactly like my dear wife was incentive enough to protect her.


I was getting tired of my friends relentlessly trying to get me hooked on a man I wasn't interested in meeting I decided it was time to get a ride home. I put my hat, scarf, and gloves, which I had discarded once I sat down at the sidebar, back on. I headed toward the door only pausing for a moment to turn around. "Hey if any of you men are decent enough to take my friends home I'll be thankful!" I called uselessly. There were so many people talking at the same time I don't think that anyone heard me.

It was nine at night and it was freezing out. I blew into my hands to warm them up. I didn't like gloves because they still made my hands numb. It had been an awfully cold fall so far and I could tell by the milky clouds surrounding the moon that snow was not too far behind.

I had walked for a long time just staring down at my shows making myself all the more invisible to the masses. I hadn't realized that I took a wrong turn until I looked up at the dead end ahead of me. I turned around to get my bearings and didn't recognize the street sign.

There was a drunk stumbling into the alleyway. He walked toward me. "Hey cutie you look good enough to eat." I looked at his face in the moonlight and all of my senses came to a halt. His face was paler than the moon his eyes were lack as coal and protruding from his mout were two white fangs!

I screamed as the man lunged at me. He grabbed me by the neck and knocked me into the opposite wall. My head was spinning. I could feel unconsciousness coming on fast. The last thing I saw before passing out was a tall figure coming to my rescue and beat up the scary monster man.


it's been a while since I've written anything and when I read this book I fell in love with Henry. He is going to be my favorite when I finally get my friend to watch the movie with me. I love you Henry! :)